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Award Number	Grant Program	Award Recipient	Project Title	Award Period	Approved Award Total	Project Director First Name	Project Director Middle Name	Project Director Last Name	Co-Project Director First Name	Co-Project Director Middle Name	Co-Project Director Last Name	Organization	Organization City	Organization State	Organization Postal Code	Organization Country	Year Awarded	Primary Humanities Discipline	Grant Program Name	Division or Office	Approved Outright Funds	Approved Matching Funds	Awarded Outright Funds	Awarded Matching Funds	Description

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PW-253719-17	Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources	University of Pittsburgh	World-Historical Gazetteer	5/1/2017 - 12/31/2020	$315,000.00	Ruth		Mostern				University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PA	15260-6133	USA	2017	History, General	Humanities Collections and Reference Resources	Preservation and Access	315000	0	315000	0	This is a project to create content, standards and digital infrastructure for a World-Historical Gazetteer (WHG): a spatially and temporally comprehensive index of significant world historical place names (a Spine), and a system for collaborative digital and data-driven historical scholarship at the global scale (an Ecosystem). It focuses significantly but not exclusively on the centuries since 1500, so as to dovetail with synergistic efforts devoted to the ancient and medieval world.